Mission engineers were confident NASA's OSIRIS-APEX (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification—Apophis Explorer) spacecraft could weather its closest ever pass of the sun on Jan ...

OSIRIS-APEX emerged "unscathed" from its closest-ever brush past our sun on Jan. 2, scientists announced on Tuesday (May 28). The probe, originally known as OSIRIS-REx, aced its sample-return ...

The spacecraft formerly known as OSIRIS-REx had an impromptu close encounter with the Sun as it follows a newly crafted route to a second asteroid, using one of its solar arrays for shade.

The probe "performed as predicted" during the first of seven close approaches to the sun on its way to Apophis, NASA said. OSIRIS-APEX is back online. Since last December, the NASA space probe had ...

The second panel is positioned to face the sun in order to power the OSIRIS-APEX probe, as it's now called due to the secondary mission. Computer simulations show holding the spacecraft in such a ...

After orbiting the sun for a year, OSIRIS-REx passed Earth and used its gravitational field as a boost toward Bennu. Is this the first time samples have been taken from an asteroid? Japan ...

8, 2016. To reach Bennu, which orbits in a plane tilted six degrees from Earth's, OSIRIS-REx looped around the sun and then made a velocity-boosting gravity-assist flyby of Earth on Sept.

OSIRIS-APEX emerged "unscathed" from its closest-ever brush past our sun on Jan. 2, scientists announced on Tuesday (May 28). OSIRIS-APEX is in an elliptical orbit around our sun, which puts it at ...

OSIRIS-APEX emerged "unscathed" from its closest-ever brush past our sun on Jan. 2, scientists announced on Tuesday (May 28). The probe, originally known as OSIRIS-REx, aced its sample-return mission ...